Box 135
Container
Contains 74 Results:
HARTFORD FLOODS, 1955
File — Box: 135, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
I attended the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut, (near Hartford) between 1954-1958. This September 25, 1955 Hartford Courant covers a major flood that inundated Hartford (and Loomis also) the fall of my sophomore year.
Dates:
1955
LOOMIS HOCKEY, 1957
File — Box: 135, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
I played hockey at Loomis. Captain my senior year. This folder contains two articles (one written by me) of games we played. (Many hockey, football, track photos and articles from Loomis were lost in the stolen suitcase mentioned above.) Folder also has a Fall 2001 Loomis Alumni Magazine with old photographs of Loomis including of our (then) new (horrible) hockey rink in 1956. It couldn't hold ice. Finally, our team, on hands and knees, had to chip off all the macadam and start over!
Dates:
1957
SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION, PORTAL, ARIZONA, Summer 1957
File — Box: 135, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
The summer of 1957 I came out west, first to Taos, then to Portal, Arizona, where I worked at the American Museum of Natural History's Southwest Research Station. (See my LITTLE RED DIARY 1957 in my JOURNAL/DIARY archives.) That summer was seminal to my life. In this folder are 1970 and 1971 newsletters from the SW Research Station explaining activities there. A good overall view. 4 pages.
Dates:
Summer 1957
LOOMIS EPHEMERA, 1956-1958
File — Box: 135, Folder: 4
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1.) 3 items in this folder are charges to me by the Loomis Business Manager for damage to my room, mostly from throwing a switchblade knife. (One billing has my outraged remarks scrawled on it.) 2.) There's also a funny letter from the Chaffee School (Loomis's sister school) entertainment committee confirming that my Loomis doo-wop singing group, The Ourangutangs, would sing at the Chaffee Junior Prom. 3.) And there's a page of stupid repartee between me and my pal, Skip Sykes. 5 pages.
Dates:
1956-1958
LOOMIS GRADUATION, JUNE 6, 1958
File — Box: 135, Folder: 5
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This folder has: 1.) A graduation program. 2.) A copy of the June 6 school newspaper, The Loomis Log. (I helped write the long class poem in "Wry and Ginger" on p. 2. I'm mentioned in 2 track articles on p. 4. My citation for winning the Sportsmanship Prize is on p. 6, along with mention in various catagories of Senior Superlatives. One more mention on p. 7.) 3.) 5 congratulations cards from friends and girlfriend's family. 4.) The original Sportsmanship Prize citation given to me. 5.)...
Dates:
JUNE 6, 1958
THE SPORTSMANSHIP PRIZE, LOOMIS SCHOOL, 1958
File — Box: 135, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
This is a plaque with a sculpture on it by Evelyn Longman Batcheldor awarded to me at my graduation from Loomis in 1958. The citation for this prize is contained in #s 2. and 4. in the folder immediately above.
Dates:
1958
HAMILTON HANDBOOKS, 1958-1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 7
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Folder includes: 1.) Hamilton College Student Handbook, 1960-61 (with some of my pencil notations). 2.) Essentials of English Usage, Hamilton English Department, 1958 (with my few scribbled notations). 3.) Our Hamilton, a booklet about the college. 4.) 2 large photos of the lovely Hamilton College Chapel.
Dates:
1958-1961
MEET THE FRESHMEN, HAMILTON CLASSES OF 1962, 1963, 1964, 1962-1964
File — Box: 135, Folder: 8
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These books with freshmen photos were mainly used for fraternity rushing. Hamilton was dependent on fraternities for food, shelter, entertainment. There was "100 percent opportunity." Every freshman was "guaranteed" a bid. (See my novel, THE STERILE CUCKOO, and my essay, AN AMERICAN CHILD SUPREME.) This folder has: 1.) 2 copies of the Class of 1962 (my class) Meet The Freshmen). One is clean; from the other I cut out pictures of the boys who pledged Theta Delta Chi with me. 2.) A copy of the...
Dates:
1962-1964
HAMILTON 40TH CLASS REUNION, 2002
File — Box: 135, Folder: 9
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I did not attend this reunion in 2002. But I wrote the preface to the 25th Reunion (in 1987) Yearbook, "An Exquisite Place to Start." (See ARCHIVES BOX 91, FOLDER 29.) This folder contains: 1.) Class of 1962 40th Reunion Yearbook with our photos and descriptions of our lives. 2.) A photo of reunion attendees (I recognize, and circled, only Phil Hineline in Row 1, Chuck Kennedy and Bill Willis in Row 3, and Sam Crowl in Row 4). 3.) A pamphlet, "Our Hamilton" the Annalist's Letter for Reunions...
Dates:
2002
HAMILTON UNDEFEATED FOOTBALL TEAM, 1958
File — Box: 135, Folder: 10
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I played on this team as a freshman, autumn 1958. This folder has: 1.) A magazine, Hamilton College Football '98, with an article on the 1958 team (p.23) and a congratulatory letter to me from Richard C. Tantillo dated Oct. 15, 1998. 2.) A photograph of the team, I am #20 on the left in back row. 3.) A 3-page Xerox from a Hamilton football program for the Union game, which has me listed as #20.
Dates:
1958
FINANCES, 1959-1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
In this folder are a few bankbooks and checks from when I was at Hamilton, and from the summer of 1961 when I lived at 4 Sutton Square in New York writing a novel. Folder includes 4 bank statements and 10 cancelled checks.
Dates:
1959-1961
THETA DELTA CHI "PSI PERCEPTOR", 1958-1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 12
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Here are 3 wacky newspapers published by my fraternity, TDX, with pictures and satirical articles. May 1958, June 1959, and June 1961. I'm mentioned on p.5, 1959, and I wrote a few of 1961's mocking articles.
Dates:
1958-1961
GRETSCH GUITAR, 1959
File — Box: 135, Folder: 13
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The summer of 1959 I was a lifeguard at the Avon (CT) Country Club and lived with my Hamilton College buddy Bill Willis's family in West Hartford, CT. I spent some of my earnings (about $350) on a lime-green, hollow body, f-hole, Gretsch electric guitar. I sold it when broke a few years later. Played music a lot with fellow Hamilton TDX pledge, Johnny Sullivan. This folder has a Gretsch Catalogue, copyright 1955, from Melody Music Co in Hartford, Connecticut, but I do not see my exact...
Dates:
1959
SKIING VERMONT, 1958-1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 14
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I skiied Vermont with Bill Willis and his family, or with friends, from 1959-1962. Sometimes stayed with Grandma (my stepgrandma) Gleason at her house in Montpelier, Vermont. Great times at Bromley, Sugarbush, Mad River Glen, Stowe, Smuggler's Notch. This folder has pamphlets for these ski areas from that time. And also a highway map of Vermont; a Ski Vermont pamphlet listing all ski areas; and an Eastern Ski Map.
Dates:
1958-1962
SPAIN, SUMMER 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 15
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I spent the summer of 1960 in Spain (at my grandmother's Barcelona house) and elsewhere in Europe (Italy, France, England) with my friend Bill Willis. (See my EUROPEAN JOURNAL: SUMMER 1960 in my JOURNAL/DIARY FILES, which also includes two large PHOTO ALBUMS from that summer.) Bill and I went to Collioure, France on a Bultaco Motorcycle. We ran with the bulls in Pamplona. This folder has: 1.) A letter from the Bultaco company to me. 2.) A customs disembarkation card for Portugal. 3.) A currency...
Dates:
SUMMER 1960
"DYLAN", SUMMER OF 1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 16
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I spent the summer of 1961 in New York at 4 Sutton Square in the penthouse of Ward and Froggy Cheney's house. I wrote a novel and took guitar lessons from the Reverend Gary Davis up in the Bronx. Ward and Froggy gave me $50 to attend Broadway Plays. This folder has a playbill for "Mary, Mary," starring Barbara Bel Geddes, and for "Dylan," starring Alec Guinness. "Dylan," about Dylan Thomas, had a huge effect on me. (See related material to Summer of 1961 in BOX 1, FOLDER 9.)
Dates:
SUMMER OF 1961
REVEREND GARY DAVIS, SUMMER OF 1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 17
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One night in summer of 1961 I met some crazies in Malachy's Bar who introduced me to blues singer Fred Neil who sent me to the Bronx for guitar lessons from the Reverend Gary Davis, a blind street-preacher and musician. Davis became famous, but wasn't in 1961. From him I learned "You Got to Move," "12 Gates to the City," "Banks of the River," and a peppy rag, or was it called a "wing dance?" I was 21. Today, at 70, I still play those songs. This folder contains 5 flyers for a Bronx envangelical...
Dates:
SUMMER OF 1961
GENE LONG, HAMILTON X-COUNTRY, 1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 18
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I ran cross-country my junior and senior years in college (autumns of 1960, 1961). Our coach was Gene Long. (See the March 18, 1966 article in "STAR AND A HALF, HAMILTON SPECTATOR, 1966-PUBLISHED VERSIONS in these files below.) This folder has Gene's 5-page training regimen (dated August 1961) and the envelope Gene mailed it in to me. (See related cross-country info in THE GOOD SCOUT, HAMILTON ARTWORK in BOX 114, FOLDER 11.) According to the envelope, this letter was forwarded to me from my...
Dates:
1961
HAMILTON PLAY, "WAITING FOR LEFTY", 1961 or 1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
My friend Alan Howard and I decided to become great actors my senior year. We "acted" in this Odet's play. My performance was not memorable. This folder has 2 copies of the 4-page playbill.
Dates:
1961 or 1962
DRAFT NOTICES, 1961-1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 20
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This folder has 4 documents and an address of an orthopedic doctor in Clinton, NY (or Utica). 1.) An Oct. 17, 1961 letter from Selective Service board telling me there's no way to know if I'll be drafted. (I wanted to know because I wished to spend a year after college with my grandmother in Barcelona, Spain.) 2.) A Nov. 2, 1961 notice from my Washington DC draft board transferring my Army physical to upstate New York. 3.) A Dec. 18, 1961 letter from my DC board setting up a Utica (ultimately...
Dates:
1961-1962
COLLEGE HOCKEY LETTERS, 1960-1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 21
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I lettered in hockey my sophomore, junior, and senior year (when I was co-captain with Pat McDonnell). Lettered in track my freshman and sophomore year. Lettered in cross-country my junior and senior years. This folder has 2 of my hockey letters. I think others were lost in that stolen suitcase mentioned above.
Dates:
1960-1962
HAMILTON HOCKEY, 1960-1961
File — Box: 135, Folder: 22
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This was my Junior year. Everyone had graduated from our 2 great previous teams. Now we were terrible...but had a fine goalie, Teddy Marks. This folder has 7 newspaper articles on our team and our games, and programs for games with Cornell and Army. We got killed by Middlebury, whose Phil Latreille, the nation's leading scorer, scored 5 goals. And Dates Fryberger, the last Fryberger brother, scored a pair. I played against the 3 Frybergers (who went to Kent prep school, then Middlebury) all...
Dates:
1960-1961
HAMILTON HOCKEY, CORNELL XMAS TOURNEY, DEC. 1960
File — Box: 135, Folder: 23
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This tournament featured Hamilton, Cornell, Bowdoin, Williams, Colgate, and Norwich. We lost to Williams and Bowdoin, and beat Colgate. I scored against Williams and Bowdoin, and got 3 goals and 2 assists against Colgate. We really stunk. This folder contains 7 newspaper articles, a program for the Holiday Invitation Hockey Tournament December 19-20-21, 1960, and 2 pamphlet guides to Cornell.
Dates:
DEC. 1960
HAMILTON HOCKEY, 1961-1962
File — Box: 135, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Another horrible year for our team. I was co-captain with Pat McDonnell, but slowed by torn meniscus and sheared ACLs. We only won 2 games, against Amherst and Penn. I scored hat tricks in both those games, my only glory. This folder has 7 newspaper articles and two programs, one vs. Colby, one vs. Cornell. Also a photo and squib about the great Phil Latreille (cf above), formerly of Middlebury, during his tryout with NY Rangers that year. I had played in 6 games where Latreille clobbered us.
Dates:
1961-1962
LOOMIS ALUMNI HOCKEY, MARCH/APRIL 1969
File — Box: 135, Folder: 25
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(This is chronologically out of order but I placed it here with other hockey riffs.) In 1969 I returned to Loomis for the alumni hockey game. We beat the varsity, 9-8. I scored 5 goals. This article in the Loomis Alumni Magazine only credited me with 4 goals. Of course, I corrected the article!
Dates:
MARCH/APRIL 1969